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In Outlanders, Kahm gives Tetsuya the ability to understand her alien language with a kiss. Though later they cast an area-affect version of the spell, probably so Kahm didn't have kiss the entire Nuba tribe.

In Revolutionary Girl Utena, Anthy would kiss Utena's sword (which she had just pulled from Utena's chest) to "abandon her body and protect the sword".

In the movie she does this to transform into the Rose Bride and give Utena her sword to fight Saionji.

The "Kiss of Life" from UFO Princess Valkyrie is both this and A Magic Contract Comes with a Kiss. Specifically, when Valkyrie first uses the Kiss Of Life to save Kazuto by injecting him with half her soul, it's a case of a kiss contract... but subsequently, after she's wound up in Sleep-Mode Size, she could 'reconnect' with the missing half of her soul and temporarily regain her magical powers by kissing Kazuto again - which would be another magic kiss.

In Magika no Kenshi to Shoukan Maou, the hero has the ability to use the magic of girls who love and trust him; the stronger their feelings toward him are, the higher-level magic he can use. But for each girl, the first time he kisses her will momentarily force a full connection and allow him to use the highest-level magic they possess regardless of her feelings. It only works with that first kiss though, after which the girl develops a "resistance" to its power.

It also (seemingly) happens between their true selves, Rue and Prince Siegfried, in the finale; the moment they kiss, Rue is suddenly clad in a Fairytale Wedding Dress.

Baise from Hunter × Hunter has the ability to make one a slave for 180 minutes by kissing a person. In the first anime, she tries to entice another boy into kissing her. Too bad he is The Stoic.

Kiddy GiRL-AND has Di-air kissing other ES members and even an artificial monster to super-charge their super powers.

Used in the Burst Angel manga by Amy—or rather, an army of holographic copies of Amy—in order to pacify an army of zombies.

In Campione!, a Campione is immune to most forms of magic, including beneficial ones like healing or knowledge transfer spells, unless it is inserted directly into his body. To use such beneficial spells on Godou, a member of his Unwanted Harem administers it via a kiss.

The entire concept of Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches. The so-called witches use their Psychic Powers by kissing. The so-called witch killers copy/steal a witch's power by kissing her. Hilarity Ensues when one of the witches orders the the titular Yamada (one of the witch killers) and his girlfriend to have sex in the middle of the street to find out if the powers can be activated by other displays of affection than just kissing. It's later mentioned that there is a specific reason why kisses are needed to use the powers, though that reason is never revealed.

In Isuca, when Shinichirou kisses someone, he automatically learns their true name. He can also transfer his energy to significantly boost the person's power.

Jack, having retrieved the soul, kisses the Faux Death body, rather brusquely.

Journey to Chaos: Zaticana does this to impart her Omniglout blessing. When Eric tries to guess the magical mechanics of it, she says she just does it for fun.

Live Action TV

Cordelia gets Doyle's vision power when Doyle kisses her in Angel. She later also passes a vision to Angel that way.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The trope is lampshaded in "The Killer in Me" when Hot Witch Willow is turned into Warren, the villain who killed her former lover Tara. At the end of the episode Kennedy, her current Love Interest, works out how to reverse the spell.

"I think I've got this magic thing figured out. It's like the fairy tales." [Kennedy kisses Willow and she turns back to normal]

Succubi and Incubi in Dungeons & Dragons (all the way to the 1st Edition) have an energy drain attack delivered though either a kiss or a hug.

Both Forgotten Realmssourcebooks and novels by Ed Greenwood had spellcasters delivering touch-spells with an extra kink. Magic Missile Reflection spell in The Seven Sisters was called "Shalantha's Kiss" because its inventor always casting it on her adventuring band like this. Elmara in The Making of a Mage, trying to keep things silent, hits a surprised opponent with a Fleshflame spell — a kiss so hot that when it ended the smoke trailed from that guy's ears, literally. In Elminster In Myth Drannor Symrustar Auglamyr triggered a pre-set spell much the same way.

The only described instance of rare spell "spellsingers' luck" involved a permanent silvery lips mark on the recipient's skin. Seven Sisters did cast in a similar fashion fate link and some beneficial spell. In the latter case Storm blew a silver "kiss" that flew from her mouth to the recipient's cheek and attached there as a tattoo-like mark.

Video Games

Chrono Trigger: Ayla's Kiss ability heals your party members' health while confirming her Bi the Way interest in strong men and women.

Apparently the kiss of a powerful fairy is capable of breaking certain curses, namely the more potent version of the frog transformation. After spending the first four chapters of Fairy Land trying to convince Mercedes to kiss him, Ingway is finally freed of his frog form after Mercedes gives him a peck on the head.

Subverted with Oswald. While his kisses certainly aren't magic, a kiss is the key to waking Gwendolyn from her slumber.

Webcomics

In Homestuck, this is a SBURB game mechanic. If a player dies (and if they have an intact dreamself), they can be revived if another player kisses their corpse within an unspecified time limit (if time runs out, the wounds propagate to the dreamself, killing them too).

In Teen Titans, Starfire can learn new languages with a kiss, which makes her the Team Face. The comic book version could do it with any touch but usually used the ability with a kiss, but it was distilled to just kissing in the animation.

An episode of Aladdin: The Series has Sadira create a fantasy world in which she could become a princess, and Aladdin could act as her knight in shining armor. Genie tries to close the portal before Sadira can take Aladdin away, but the conflict between his and Sadira's brands of magic leaves Aladdin as a street rat with delusions of knighthood. In order to regain his sanity, Aladdin has to successfully steal a kiss from a princess..."Princess" Sadira, much to Jasmine's dismay.

In Ben 10: Alien Force, Charmcaster kisses Kevin putting him in a trance and orders Kevin to bring Gwen out. A Hypno Trinket was given to Kevin as the mind controlling device.

In Steven Universe, Garnet is able to temporarily pass her future vision to Steven with a kiss.

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